Hi, Bryan You wrote:
I know best subjective, but I'm looking at a project to announce some IP space that's between uses now and see what's there. I'm planing to run a flow logger and ntop on the VM and see what is coming in if anything. I'm looking at the options for BGP out there, and there's quite a few […]
Others have pointed several great open source BGP daemons which can interface with Linux routing. If you just want to ignore BGP for forwarding, and point a default at one place, you might like to consider ExaBGP. This is very lightweight - it can do the BGP announcing of your prefix(es) without syncing routing changes to the Linux routing table. There are some simple AS112 instances, for example, delivered with this model. https://github.com/Exa-Networks/exabgp Andy